The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-05-05
COUN NiRY LIFE AND WORK.
THE NIGHT MIST.


All the night long the gray embracing mist
Has heic in tender arms the tired world:
The sleepy river its soft lips have kissed.
And over hills and meadows II has curled.
tts white. COO. finger II has gently placed
On weary stretches Of deep, drifting sand;
The nosy city and the far-o6 waste
Have felt the benedictiOn OF ite hand.
The dro~ay world rolls on towards the day:
The fresh. sweet wind Of morning softly
blows:
The Willing mirt no longer now may stay:
With first expectancy OF dawn II goes.
-MARGAREr DELAND, in Harper'e Magazine for
May
DON'T LFAyE THE FARM,
Come. boys, something to tell you;
Come near. l would whisper 1t low
You are thinking Of leaving the home stead.
Don't be In hurry to 60.
The great stirring word has inducem, nte.
There is many gay bnsy sma't.
But wealth is not made in day, boys,
Don't be in hurry to start
| The farm is safest aud surert,
The orchards are yielding to-day:
You're free as the air OF the moutsins.
And monarch Of all you survey:
! Better stay on the farm awhile icnger,
Though profts should come rather slow: !:
! Rem tmber you've nothing to risk. boys,
Don't be n a hurry TO 90.
FEEDING THE CALF.
The good village pastor was ready
for church. He had donned his s.suit
IF solemn black" tied his rather limp
ahite necktie. carefully polished his
boots and smoothed his old plug hat
with a silk handkerchief when his
daughter calculated: ..Law sakes, pa.
you have forgotten to feed the calf. y
| A momentary cloud crossed the good
mans brow but he wearily plodded to
the barn. filled bucket with meal and
milk ard water for the forgotten animal.
who. plunging his head into the recep-
taclc. .grzzled the contents rapidly down.
Then raising his black muzzle he shed
Il shower Of mush all over the good
man. drenching his treasured trousers
and extinguishing at once the brilliant
polish of his boots. With look OF
anguish at his bedrabbled dress, and a
,nnrderous glance ut the cause. now
switching his tail and mildly staring at
him. the worthy pastor groaned: III
was not humble follower Of the meek
and lowly One | would knock your
blanked head through that bucket
blank YOU" And then he sorrowfully
wended his way into the house for re.
Fi,airs.
| WHY THE BUTTER DOESN'T CONE.
1st. Because Of some disorganize(
or unhealthy condition Of the COW.
2d. On account Of the unwhole
some food and water supplied.
3rd. Want Of proper cleanliness il
milking and setting the milk.
4th. Lack Of right conditions in tn,
raising Of the cream-pure air an.
proper time-kept too long.
9Th. The cream not raised and skim
med in due time.
9th. Cream not churned at the pro
per time-kept too long.
7th. Cream is allowed to freeze-in
|jured still more in thawing.
Sth. Cream too warm when chnrn
ed.
9th. Cream too cold
10th. Chnrn not a good one.
llth. Lazy hand at the churn
Some persons have the churn aroun,
nearly all day. summer or winter: tax,
Il few turns and stop; fool around an,
begin again. Cannot make good butte
SO. Use box or barrel churn; begil
moderately and continue 50 until II,
more vent is needed. and then go on a
Il good pace, without stopping till tn
butter comes. When the cream is per
feet and the temperature is right
about sixty-five degrees in winter, for
batch Of butter weighing twenty t,
thirty five pounds. twenty to twenty
i've minutes should be ample time 70
churning. In the winter season
should expect to find the cause in tn
reason given above in No. to No. 9
Practical Farmer.
THE BEST SEEDS FOR PROPAGATION
Nursery men are well aware that seed
Of the best and choicest apples are no
best for planting. All that is wantee
is strong, vigorous stock and this ]
best secured by planting seeds Of tn
small. inferior varieties, too poor 70
anything except making cider. Thes
are generally used not alone becaus
they are easiest to get, but becaus
they are the best. If We wished fruit
from these seedlings only seeds from
the best favored varieties would b
planted; but as the propagator invariably
gratis these, then the kind of fruit tn
Seeding might bear isimmaterial. Tn
Ichief drawback to this method O
Igetting trees is that it gives little oppor
|tunity for valuable chance Seeding
which used sometimes to be obtained
Perhaps, however, it is as well tina
varieties of fruits should b
bred, for by selecting seeds from tn
choicest kinds, and by cross fertilization
much Of improved stock is bred. Thi
will make two kinds of seeds, each bes
for its respective purpose, one includin:
the great bulk of seeds from inferio
fruit for producing stocks, and the othe
the carefully selected few seeds for th'
amateur and specialist seeking new
varieties.
THE AVERAGE NUMBER OF EGGS.
There are 365 days in year, and o
that number We must deduct 100 day.
as the molting period, as it usually re
|qnires about three months for hen tt
shed her feathers and put on new ones
We have 265 days left. As no hen car
lay an egg every day, it is apparent
that the hen that lays 200 eggs in a yea
cannot stop to do much work in hatch